The U.N. Development Programs is warning that Myanmar’s Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority and engulfed in conflict between government forces and a powerful ethnic group, could face an imminent acute famine.

(Reuters) - Myanmar's war-ravaged Rakhine state could face imminent famine according to a United Nations report, which estimates that more than two million people could be at the risk of starvation. Rice production in Rakhine, a western state that borders ...

Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state is heading toward famine, the United Nations warned on Thursday (Nov 7), as the country's civil war squeezes commerce and agricultural production.

Instead, they invited him to Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province to Myanmar’s north, for a small regional summit hosted by Li Qiang, China’s premier. But their real purpose is to prod him to lay out plans for fresh elections in 2025.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra met with the head of Myanmar’s military junta in China yesterday, as her government prepares to hold an “informal consultation” on the country’s conflict next month.

Myanmar's ruling military has been battling against a rebellion that erupted after it seized power in a 2021 coup and has largely ignored calls by its Southeast Asian neighbours to cease hostilities and enter into dialogue with its opponents.